Strategic Category Advisor - Walmart

Position: Strategic Category Advisor - Walmart - United States
Location(s):
Rogers, Arkansas Company:
Georgia-Pacific Career Field:
Marketing Job Number: 196106

Apply:  Job Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Senior Manager, Category Management – Strategic Advisor to serve as a dedicated, objective category advisor for Walmart, supporting a large and strategically important category with more than $12 billion in annual sales. This leader will be the primary category-management contact for the Walmart merchant team, own the long-term category vision and insight agenda, and translate shopper, market, digital, operational, sustainability, and regulatory intelligence into fact-based recommendations that grow the total category and improve customer experience.

The role will lead a Modular Planner / Strategist and coordinate a broader network of analytical, shopper, digital, technology, legal, and regulatory resources.

What You Will Do Build trusted-advisor credibility with Walmart by bringing a category first, supplier-neutral perspective and clear, fact-based recommendations.

Recommend fact-based category strategies and long-term growth plans across the physical and digital shelf, anticipating changes in shopper behavior, economic conditions, competitive dynamics, and sustainability.

Serve as the primary merchant contact, establishing effective working rhythms and translating complex analysis into decision-ready recommendations and executive-level stories

Set analytical standards for measuring category, modular, cluster, item, digital-shelf, and customer performance; ensure weekly, monthly, line-review, and ad hoc work is accurate, timely, and actionable.

Synthesize Walmart Scintilla data with competitive market, customer, and macroeconomic information, working across a variety of sources to identify opportunities and risks.

Apply artificial intelligence and advanced analytics responsibly to accelerate signal detection, automate repeatable analysis, improve scenario development, and increase the speed and quality of recommendations.

Lead assortment, clustering, localization, transferable-demand, space-allocation, and shelving recommendations. Use planogram tools such as JDA / Blue Yonder to evaluate and guide executable, shopper-friendly modular solutions.

Provide strategic oversight to the Modular Planner / Strategist, including prioritization, coaching, quality control, performance development, and coordination of third-party drawing support during peak modular windows.

Guide web enrichment and item-content recommendations that improve findability, content quality, item attribution, conversion, fulfillment, and the connection between  and the in-store experience.

Develop omni competitive and customer insights, including market-share trends, assortment gaps, price and promotional context, customer needs, occasions, loyalty, switching, baskets, and market-level differences.

Partner with internal experts to incorporate digital, sustainability, regulatory, technology, legal, and shopper considerations into objective category recommendations.

Monitor emerging regulations and sustainability requirements and translate implications into objective category scenarios and recommendations.

Drive continuous improvement through post-modular measurement, test-and-learn processes, documented learnings, and regular partnership reviews.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant professional experience.
7 years of progressive experience in category management, category advisory, retail analytics, merchandising, or a related consumer products discipline.

Experience supporting Walmart, with demonstrated knowledge of Walmart merchant expectations, category-management processes, modular and line-review cycles.

Experience using Walmart Scintilla and/or Retail…